News 2017 July 4

YHB sells a 26% stake in its unit in Ghana to a Japanese consortium

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg welcomed 12 cruise ships last week

Ships of RF Navy's Pacific Fleet conducted anti-ship missile firing at sea

Eli Glickman takes the helm at ZIM

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg welcomed 56 cruise ships in June 2017

Hapag-Lloyd launches euro bond offering

Throughput of Chinese ports up 7.2% to 3.57 bln t in Jan-May'17

MEPC 71 opened at IMO"s London HQ to focus on BWMC implementation

Digital Ship announces the Maritime CIO Forum Singapore to take place on 4 October

Wärtsilä completes acquisition of Greensmith Energy Management Systems Inc.

DeepOcean secures export cable installation contract from NSW for offshore wind farm in Germany

ESI evaluates CO2 performance, the first one with a quality mark in shipping

Carnival Paradise arrives in Havana on Carnival Cruise Line’s first-ever voyage to Cuba

Coal exports from Russia up 10% to 90.353 mln t in 6M’17

SCF Group receives Seatrade Award for Deal of the Year 2016 (photo)

RF Navy's Sovershenny сorvette completed the state sea trials

BC Ferries revenues rose to $859.3 million in FY2017

Austal launches 50-metre high speed passenger ferry in Philippines

Russia's crude exports up 6.3% to 129.84 mln t in 6M’17

Throughput of Port Vysotsky LLC up 16.6% to 3.51 mln t in Jan-June'17

WinGD X52 diesel completes FAT, TAT tests

Bunker prices continue going down at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Murmansk hosts 10th International Conference "Arctic Shelf Development: Step by Step" on 13-14 November’17

DryShips announces time charter contract for one of its Newcastlemax vessels

AS Tallink Grupp statistics for June 2017 and the second quarter of the 2017 financial year

Austal delivers second high-speed ferry to 2GO Philippines

Bunker sales at port Vladivostok in Jan-May'17 surged by 66% to 336,000 t

Brent Crude futures price down 0.52% to $49.42, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.49% to $46.84

IAA PortNews performs experiment on having package cargo delivered and cleared at MSCC Bronka (photo)

Azeri crude exports via port Novorossiysk up 1.5 times to 733,660 t in 6M’17

Baltic Dry Index down to 882 points